I’m a day late with this weekly recap because I didn’t manage to wrap it up yesterday. My sister just came home at the end of last week after being abroad a few weeks for a community service project. That’s why I chose to spend more time with her over the weekend, since I hardly see her anymore.
THE LIST by Siobhan Vivian
There are a whole lot of main characters to keep track of in The List! Eight of them, to be exact. At least the narrative is in third person. That gives it a semblance of consistency, even though it still felt like I was juggling eight points-of-view as I read the book. At 332 pages, each character averages 40 pages, unless their paths overlap, which doesn’t happen all that much because they all hail from different social circles.
Books to Movies: The Ultimate Reading Pressure
I have a confession to make. Actually, no. I have several confessions to make.
- I have not read The Fault in Our Stars. The ebook is currently on my Kindle but I’ve not even taken a peek.
- I own the German copy of If I Stay but have not read it.
- I pre-ordered Allegiant last year but then left it untouched in my shelf. I have yet to read it.
- I own the shiniest edition of The Hunger Games, which is a Scholastic UK Foil Luxe edition. It is all gold, screaming for attention on my shelf but I’ve not read that either.
- I have no idea what The Perks of Being a Wallflower is about because, you guessed it, I have not read it.
- I have not made an effort to read The Maze Runner.
SALTWATER MOONS by Julie Gittus
Saltwater Moons is a very contemplative novel, full of heartache from the beginning right through to the end. What I liked about it is how true to life it is. I think that’s difficult to pull off. As much as realistic fiction carries the label realistic, it’s more about being believable because so many things happen in life that are unbelievable, yet in fiction, readers struggle to suspend their disbelief when such events take place in books.
Retrospect #22: June 1st
This week I was reminded how much of a price difference there is between buying books in local bookstores and ordering them online. I happened to pass by an outlet of a local bookstore chain, which had a 1-for-1 sale on most books. Of course I couldn’t pass up on such a great bargain, or so I thought.
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